page_title: 1540
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1540 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Grafik aus dem Klebeband Nr. 1 der Fürstlich Waldeckschen Hofbibliothek Arolsen Illustration aus: Georg Greblinger: Wahre Abbildungen der Türckischen Kayser vnd Persischen Fürsten / so wol auch anderer Helden und Heldinnen von dem Osman / biß auf den andern Mahomet. Johann Ammon, Frankfurt 1648 Motiv: "David Beldugian" (Dawid II., Kaiser von Äthiopien)
context_page_description: Year 1540 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
context_section_description: c. January – Elizabeth Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England (b. 1502)
  January 27 – Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
  March 30 – Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
  April 21 – Afonso of Portugal, Catholic cardinal (b. 1509)
  May 6 – Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar (b. 1492)
  May 22 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian (b. 1483)
  June 16 – Konrad von Thüngen, German noble (b. c. 1466)
  July 22 – John Zápolya, King of Hungary (b. c. 1490)
  July 28 – Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (executed) (b. c.1485)
  July 30
  Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred) (b. c. 1497)
  Robert Barnes, English reformer (martyred) (b. 1495)
  Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Calenberg (1491–1540) (b. 1470)
  August 23 – Guillaume Budé, French scholar (b. 1467)
  August 24 – Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (Parmigianino), Italian artist (b. 1503)
  August 28 – Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (b. 1500)
  September 2 – Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (in battle) (b. 1501)
  September 16 – Enrique de Borja y Aragón, Spanish noble of the House of Borgia (b. 1518)
  September 20 – Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, son of King Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1515)
  October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus, German Latin poet (b. 1488)
  date unknown – Francisco de Ulloa, Spanish explorer
  probable
  Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer (b. 1460)
  Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (b. 1480)
caption: Lebna Dengel
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